Regardless of the beam used, you would ultimately have to have the SENSOR be more sensitive. The wavelength has little to do with the resolution (although, certain wavelengths probably work better with certain sensors....)
Just for grins on my part, are there one million combinations of resistor values, or are there one million different combinations of (resistor values)x(key cuts)?
I know GM only used 7 because of costs and reliability.... you wouldn't want values so close together that you'd have a problem with tolerances, temperatures, fingerprints on the contacts etc.
I own a GM car equipped with this feature. AFAIK, there are only 7 possible resistor combinations (per the manual for the car, and per the sears key shop -- when I needed to get a key made, they measured the resistance through the "chip" and cut another key with the same "chip" in it...)
So there's not much to that. The only issue is, is if you try to start the car with the wrong value, it will disable the car for 5 minutes. So, you could steal the car on the first shot, or the max time would be 35 minutes, start to finish.... detering a thief for even 5 minutes, though, would probably work.
And, oh yes, it's also a pain when the car doesn't recognize your key (happened to me once...) because, as you know, keys have a pretty rough life. Keeping the "contacts" on the pellet clean isn't really a thought for me all the time....
Heck, try using tape sometime. Zip disks are expensive (and a little unreliable, the last time I used them anyways...)
I've got a DDS3 drive that was donated to me (ahem) and has worked perfectly since the installation. However, I almost balked at the current retail price of tapes. I believe Microcenter wants 10-12$ PER TAPE, of which, if you're storing MP3's, you only get about 11gig out of a tape. (The hardware compression is not good on decently compressed files, and actually ends up eating more space than the raw data would.....)
So, for 80 gigs (estimation), you need 8 tapes. Minimum 10$/tape, that is 80$. May as well buy another drive; let alone the speed of backup / restore and the tape change duties.
I've won 2 bids on ebay and now have 30+ tapes, brand new, for around 60$ total investment. Now I've got enough tapes to do 2 full backups of my server, and have some spares for incrementals and "oddball" machines. But sometimes, the time invested makes me wonder if I shouldn't just get a removable rack + a few 120gig drives........ and sell the tape drive....
Now, even if they only cost a few dollars each, I'd still be a copying fool.
Why?
Not because I like to give away free music, but because I do not want to ever lose, scratch, or worry about my CD collection while I am in my car. Also, a thief would be able to take my collection from my car and I'd be able to replace all the discs for the cost of a 50 pack of writables (which is what, 10$ or so for cheapies?)
But then again, this has nothing to do with the argument at hand... just figured I'd write something until I had to leave work:)
Just a thought to the "let's kill some cylinders to save gas" idea...
While to start, that sounds like you'd save gas. BUT - you still have the same amount of rotating mass; the same weight of the car, and you need (shocker!) the SAME AMOUNT of energy to move the engine/drivetrain.
The only way that I could see an improvement in fuel economy would be to make positively sure that when you're in the "speed-step-optimized" fuel mode, that the valves for intake and exhaust aren't hampering the process. And even then, you would still have to control the cylinder to some extent - you wouldn't want to "draw" exhaust gases back into the chamber..... The next time you'd go to fire it up (hit the gas), it wouldn't exactly give you the performance you expect for the first few revs of engine.
And the Corvette gets good gas milage... because of a few things. I like to attribute my 30 MPG highway to the 6 speed in my Z28 (1995, which used the LT1 V8 in the early/mid 90's for the vettes...) as well as the ungodly torque from the factory.
"If you are that desperate to join a certain channel, buy yourself a server somewhere, or get a shell-account from a friend - so that you can bounce of that and onto the IRC-network of your choice."
What?....
I thought the whole point of getting access from an ISP was that you had access to the resources on the WWW. Now, I can understand the politics behind not wanting to have to continually ban a few, but suggesting someone out there might go find resources elsewhere just to use something most others could use without problem?
Those "slight changes" are kind of my point though...
Realistically, though, I was basing my opinion on the fact that I can take a power steering pump from my '79 cougar and put it in my roomate's '94 mustang...
Now that's part re-use..:)
Thanks for the link, however. I do my own work on my 3 vehicles; new info is always welcome.
I'd actually bet money that most people probably wouldn't buy this kind of car.
Why?
Well, I'm definitely not speaking from experience, but wouldn't radar-sucking paint have a somewhat non-shiny appearance? I know with an 8 year old car, the paint is starting to show signs of age, and newer cars all look shinier. Somewhat better.
But I'll keep mine, and maybe suck up some radar along the way.
Actually, when I look at the cost of replacing parts on any car, it's obvious one of two things is happening:
1. The car manufacturer sure is selling these at a loss, and making one heck of a killing on the parts (your view).
2. The car manufacturer is making hand over fist money on the car, and the parts are horrendously marked up.
I tend to sway a little towards #1, because even with aftermarket parts, it still costs a buttload of money (yes, a buttload of money) to "buy" all of the parts required to put a car together (not to mention the labor). However, I also tend to think parts are marked up a bit; partially because GM can't seem to keep similar parts on more than 1 car in each lineup (sorry, my own rant there....)
We had this in a little po-dunk city back home. Basically, they'd rent out a room with a tv, and vcr, and also sell snacks.
What they did finally get closed down for was that they'd copy all of the first run movies, to make more of a profit... This was back when the initial run VHS copies were 100$ or more, IIRC.... Renting a copy is a no-no, and I'm not sure where "servers" would stand, unless you had a copy (i.e. a license) for each movie used. Would probably have to keep a pretty good journal....
If you're going online, aren't you seeing digital boobs? (granted, they were "analog" at one point... perhaps that's why they tend to be "smoother" than digital boobx....)
I've got a copy of Norton Systemworks 2001 at work that states on install, that you should boot to the cd-rom and have it do a virus check before you install the software (Norton Antivirus is included in this suite...)
I've not used it yet; the only risk I would say you'd run is if you have a virus that is not detected with the CD build of the virusscan... Pretty hard to do updates to read-only media.... but for a general sweep of the machine, you'd be good to go.
Maybe there's a way to "repackage" the bootable portion of the cd / virus definitions, and go that route? I'm sure Norton has had requests for this before, and it wouldn't take much time talking with their support (never had to contact them myself) to see if this is the case...
We're in the same boat, though... Validated systems; since I work in Network Architecture, one of the problems we run into is we can't put ANYTHING on servers that isn't validated (i.e. packet sniffing/analyzing agents, etc.) I see their point, so in the end we just mirror ports:) (slightly ot, I know)
Just a helpful hint: Most DVD players will read CD-RW's, even if they bork on CD-R media.
However, this doesn't help when you already have a copy of stuff on an R, and don't want to re-burn an RW....
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One of the problems with using a UPS (notwithstanding the "heavy" issue) in this setup (in my experience with APC anyways) is that they will not power on without being plugged in first.
I have seen some that work otherwise, but my suggestion would be to get something a little "easier" on the weight requirement. I believe Radio Shack has "D" size Nickel-Metal Hydride (sp?) batteries that are 4-6 AH. Select the right amount of batteries, grab a battery holder while you're at it (as well as a plug if you don't want to castrate the original power supply), hook it all together, and you've got a cheap, rechargeable portable solution.
Oh -- you will have one more cost -- you'll need a charger for the batteries as well. Maybe it's not the cheapest solution, but it will definitely be lighter than a UPS.
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Regardless of the beam used, you would ultimately have to have the SENSOR be more sensitive. The wavelength has little to do with the resolution (although, certain wavelengths probably work better with certain sensors....)
Just for grins on my part, are there one million combinations of resistor values, or are there one million different combinations of (resistor values)x(key cuts)?
I know GM only used 7 because of costs and reliability.... you wouldn't want values so close together that you'd have a problem with tolerances, temperatures, fingerprints on the contacts etc.
I own a GM car equipped with this feature. AFAIK, there are only 7 possible resistor combinations (per the manual for the car, and per the sears key shop -- when I needed to get a key made, they measured the resistance through the "chip" and cut another key with the same "chip" in it...)
So there's not much to that. The only issue is, is if you try to start the car with the wrong value, it will disable the car for 5 minutes. So, you could steal the car on the first shot, or the max time would be 35 minutes, start to finish.... detering a thief for even 5 minutes, though, would probably work.
And, oh yes, it's also a pain when the car doesn't recognize your key (happened to me once...) because, as you know, keys have a pretty rough life. Keeping the "contacts" on the pellet clean isn't really a thought for me all the time....
Heck with that! Memory has MBTF's as well....I want an interface to my brain, so I can keep all important data with me at all times....
:)
And if it ever fails, I won't care, since it'd probably be because I am dead...
Heck, try using tape sometime. Zip disks are expensive (and a little unreliable, the last time I used them anyways...)
I've got a DDS3 drive that was donated to me (ahem) and has worked perfectly since the installation. However, I almost balked at the current retail price of tapes. I believe Microcenter wants 10-12$ PER TAPE, of which, if you're storing MP3's, you only get about 11gig out of a tape. (The hardware compression is not good on decently compressed files, and actually ends up eating more space than the raw data would.....)
So, for 80 gigs (estimation), you need 8 tapes. Minimum 10$/tape, that is 80$. May as well buy another drive; let alone the speed of backup / restore and the tape change duties.
I've won 2 bids on ebay and now have 30+ tapes, brand new, for around 60$ total investment. Now I've got enough tapes to do 2 full backups of my server, and have some spares for incrementals and "oddball" machines. But sometimes, the time invested makes me wonder if I shouldn't just get a removable rack + a few 120gig drives........ and sell the tape drive....
Now, even if they only cost a few dollars each, I'd still be a copying fool.
:)
Why?
Not because I like to give away free music, but because I do not want to ever lose, scratch, or worry about my CD collection while I am in my car. Also, a thief would be able to take my collection from my car and I'd be able to replace all the discs for the cost of a 50 pack of writables (which is what, 10$ or so for cheapies?)
But then again, this has nothing to do with the argument at hand... just figured I'd write something until I had to leave work
Warning, offtopic....
Just a thought to the "let's kill some cylinders to save gas" idea...
While to start, that sounds like you'd save gas. BUT - you still have the same amount of rotating mass; the same weight of the car, and you need (shocker!) the SAME AMOUNT of energy to move the engine/drivetrain.
The only way that I could see an improvement in fuel economy would be to make positively sure that when you're in the "speed-step-optimized" fuel mode, that the valves for intake and exhaust aren't hampering the process. And even then, you would still have to control the cylinder to some extent - you wouldn't want to "draw" exhaust gases back into the chamber..... The next time you'd go to fire it up (hit the gas), it wouldn't exactly give you the performance you expect for the first few revs of engine.
And the Corvette gets good gas milage... because of a few things. I like to attribute my 30 MPG highway to the 6 speed in my Z28 (1995, which used the LT1 V8 in the early/mid 90's for the vettes...) as well as the ungodly torque from the factory.
o....k
I know I for one would call the cops if homeless people lived in my unused garage. It's my property.
Now, the severity? Yes, maybe excessive in that light. But protecting their own assets... that's their right.
"If you are that desperate to join a certain channel, buy yourself a server somewhere, or get a shell-account from a friend - so that you can bounce of that and onto the IRC-network of your choice."
....
What?
I thought the whole point of getting access from an ISP was that you had access to the resources on the WWW. Now, I can understand the politics behind not wanting to have to continually ban a few, but suggesting someone out there might go find resources elsewhere just to use something most others could use without problem?
It's a double edged sword, I tell ya.....
Those "slight changes" are kind of my point though...
:)
Realistically, though, I was basing my opinion on the fact that I can take a power steering pump from my '79 cougar and put it in my roomate's '94 mustang...
Now that's part re-use..
Thanks for the link, however. I do my own work on my 3 vehicles; new info is always welcome.
"Radio Shack Coco 2 in the house"
I remember dreaming of having enough money one day to get the 512KB memory upgrade for my coco3....
Or, drooling over the 1MB or 2MB upgrades, or the 0 wait state disk controller (OS9 goodness....)
I'd actually bet money that most people probably wouldn't buy this kind of car.
Why?
Well, I'm definitely not speaking from experience, but wouldn't radar-sucking paint have a somewhat non-shiny appearance? I know with an 8 year old car, the paint is starting to show signs of age, and newer cars all look shinier. Somewhat better.
But I'll keep mine, and maybe suck up some radar along the way.
Actually, when I look at the cost of replacing parts on any car, it's obvious one of two things is happening:
1. The car manufacturer sure is selling these at a loss, and making one heck of a killing on the parts (your view).
2. The car manufacturer is making hand over fist money on the car, and the parts are horrendously marked up.
I tend to sway a little towards #1, because even with aftermarket parts, it still costs a buttload of money (yes, a buttload of money) to "buy" all of the parts required to put a car together (not to mention the labor). However, I also tend to think parts are marked up a bit; partially because GM can't seem to keep similar parts on more than 1 car in each lineup (sorry, my own rant there....)
Who cares, just put it out on WinMX and let us sort it out....
:)
Oh wait... you're saying the Union might want to control the distribution???
Laugh... or Cry. I don't care which.
Maybe you could pull the OS off of it, or maybe even copies of Office!!! :)
We had this in a little po-dunk city back home. Basically, they'd rent out a room with a tv, and vcr, and also sell snacks.
What they did finally get closed down for was that they'd copy all of the first run movies, to make more of a profit... This was back when the initial run VHS copies were 100$ or more, IIRC.... Renting a copy is a no-no, and I'm not sure where "servers" would stand, unless you had a copy (i.e. a license) for each movie used. Would probably have to keep a pretty good journal....
Nitpick -
If you're going online, aren't you seeing digital boobs? (granted, they were "analog" at one point... perhaps that's why they tend to be "smoother" than digital boobx....)
ummm. I think you got it backwards.
....
How would it be $7.46 per gig, if the DVD-R is 63 cents?
That's 63 cents for 4.7 gigs.
That's (roughly) 13 cents per gig.
Someone actually pays for Microsoft software???
haaaaahaaaaaahaaaaaaa!
Amen to that:
:)
At the lan parties I attend, there are 2 people at the top:
Me, with my measly 900mhz tbird w/geforce2mx
The host, with an xp2000+ and geforce3 ti500.
Now, I've seen him play, and he's seen me play. Regardless of how crappy I think my machine might be, it is all in how it's played.
And that's why I'm saving pennies instead of forking out for a nice new geforce4.
I've got a copy of Norton Systemworks 2001 at work that states on install, that you should boot to the cd-rom and have it do a virus check before you install the software (Norton Antivirus is included in this suite...)
:) (slightly ot, I know)
I've not used it yet; the only risk I would say you'd run is if you have a virus that is not detected with the CD build of the virusscan... Pretty hard to do updates to read-only media.... but for a general sweep of the machine, you'd be good to go.
Maybe there's a way to "repackage" the bootable portion of the cd / virus definitions, and go that route? I'm sure Norton has had requests for this before, and it wouldn't take much time talking with their support (never had to contact them myself) to see if this is the case...
We're in the same boat, though... Validated systems; since I work in Network Architecture, one of the problems we run into is we can't put ANYTHING on servers that isn't validated (i.e. packet sniffing/analyzing agents, etc.) I see their point, so in the end we just mirror ports
I'm not so sure, but I think if you hit the flies with a spraycan, then you'd have more problems than just dirty windows.
:)
*smash!*
I'll bet you're glad you couldn't find a spraycan
Just a helpful hint: Most DVD players will read CD-RW's, even if they bork on CD-R media.
However, this doesn't help when you already have a copy of stuff on an R, and don't want to re-burn an RW....
One of the problems with using a UPS (notwithstanding the "heavy" issue) in this setup (in my experience with APC anyways) is that they will not power on without being plugged in first.
I have seen some that work otherwise, but my suggestion would be to get something a little "easier" on the weight requirement. I believe Radio Shack has "D" size Nickel-Metal Hydride (sp?) batteries that are 4-6 AH. Select the right amount of batteries, grab a battery holder while you're at it (as well as a plug if you don't want to castrate the original power supply), hook it all together, and you've got a cheap, rechargeable portable solution.
Oh -- you will have one more cost -- you'll need a charger for the batteries as well. Maybe it's not the cheapest solution, but it will definitely be lighter than a UPS.
Yea!!!! And if you drive a Chrysler, you better get off of my property!!!!
YEA!!!.... ummm...